It didn't take long for me to see where I needed to go. Although I know this whole area pretty much was the 'Beginner' area and made a mental note to myself that it sounded like I was in an RPG but without all the elements of one. Maybe I would encroach on that later. I wouldn't take too much time thinking on it now.

I took this moment while I was on a huge hill looking down at the part of the town that looked like it belonged to a huge, bustling market. This hill...while it was basically flat at the top, the only thing that stood out was the one lone tree that look like it had been planted not too long ago, maybe a few years. It was just a small sapling still. I stood under it out of the light of the sun.

My eyes were now drawn to the wrist computer on my arm and I held it up. I recognized this device. It was something I wrote into existence for a character of mine but never fully developed. I don't know why but when I look at this thing, I get the sense of nostalgia even though that shouldn't be. I only had it all of almost an hour.

"...I must be going crazy if I'm already getting sentimental over a piece of technology..." I say to myself. 

"I resent that. I have feelings too, I find it extremely rude that you'd say that." the 'machine' whirled to life after speaking that sentence as if it was waking up.

The sudden voice set me off balance and I nearly fall to the ground but instead hitting my back against the tree behind me, shaking it. An small acorn falls off the tree and hits me in the head which he instinctively held the top of my head where it landed. It didn't really hurt but it surprised me and after a few moments, I put my arms down and looked down at the device once again.

"Er...sorry? Its not like I knew you were...um, alive. What's your name?" I asked, not wanting to make the same mistake again.

"My name is Arius, sir. An all purpose tool, from the mundane to the most critical and a computer with hyper intelligence. I can do it all! It was what I was created for, by who? I haven't the slightest clue and I found myself on you so that makes you my new and only master. May I know your name please and I'll log it to my memory banks!" it said in a strangely upbeat, however monotoned voice.

I thought about it for a moment when he asked. I was told not to use my real name. I wasn't sure why but the phone that was sitting in the middle of the computer wasn't coming back on anymore. I was sure it had the answers I needed too. However, I'd worry about that later, first thing was first.

"My name's Saren and it's nice to meet you Arius. I...don't have a last name, if I did, I don't remember. Maybe one of these very kind people in this town will adopt me, eh?" I tried to joke but Arius just didn't get it.

"You're an orphan? I'm terribly sorry! I excuse my rudeness for earlier about calling you out about my feelings. My personality drive inside me is quite complex and I blurted that out without thinking. I knew you didn't know anything about my core features and..." he continued before I stopped it.

"Forget about it, not your fault. And it's not like I'm a legit orphan, I'm just...misplaced, I guess you can say." it was the best I could think of. I'm not sure if it was a good idea telling others I wasn't part of this world, I mean considering where I come from we were responsible for creating all of them, knowing all of them didn't have the greatest backstories. Might be some animosity...

"Misplaced? You come from a very far away land? I did too. In fact, what I am on your arm is only a small piece of what I belong to. The rest of it is a huge dreadnought, a starship capable of interstellar travel. I feel incomplete like this...if you can find this ship, I can be myself again and you'd get to be captain of this ship. It's name is Nexus. I'll point it out on your map!" he enthusiastically said.

A large map of the map of this world appeared in the air as a large hologram screen. It had our location, the Town of Beginnings. The forest that was just ahead of the town named The Arcane Forest. Which looked like it spanned a huge part of the map. If I had to give a size for it, it'd be the same distance and width of Hyrule Field, the whole field just flat with a lot of trees. 

Beyond that was a kingdom named Astoria. It appeared to be one of the largest provinces around and covered a lot of the map to the west up to the snowy covered mountains which its name was the Alps Mountains. Oh, that's right. This thing had the current weather displayed in each of these places just for context as well as other topographic information, points of interests, and even information on population. Next was a ice covered sea beyond that named The Lanza Channel which used to be part of The Great Sea.

This sea I could see as I asked Arius to zoom on it and asked him was there any information on it apart from it being frozen over. He happily provided the information and began to talk as the screen indeed zoomed in. The view now gave a ground visual as well giving temperature to different parts of the ice. Some places were colder than others, those places were marked with a question mark.

"Allow me to explain. The Lanza Channel, once part of the Great Sea is now currently frozen to a standstill with many species of marine life trapped in ice. Even though this ice seems natural, it isn't. From what local information says about the Channel, a terrible curse was placed not allowing anyone to travel by sea to get across The Great Sea, at least from this side of the world. Didn't allow anyone to get through either. All that tried...well..." he said before the map turned into live photographs.

There were countless ships frozen in the ice, capsized one would say but the raging snow not only snowed it over but froze it as well. My eyes widened as I never seen so many ships frozen in place like that. A lot of them were toward the middle of the Channel. That was when Arius started up again, clearing its throat to speak.

"That which you can see, Master Saren, is the ships that were leaving Astoria but was caught in this ice that some believed was a curse that came out of nowhere." he finished.

"Local superstition or was there an actual cause? Was there any records of anyone trying to figure out where it came from?" I wasn't going to lie to myself, I was interested now. Honestly, I shouldn't be but nothing like this happens in the real world, I kind of wanted to know if no one did know.

"About 2 years ago, a investigation was launched to see if there was some way to melt the ice but unfortunately, according to records, no one has actually come back from that. No one did happen to find out what happened. This happened at the same time as other places having succumbed to their own problems. Nothing has been heard about the other places because no one on the outside can get to them and no one from the outside can get to us. We're stuck on this landmass until we can find out the nature of that ice." Arius said to me.

"I see..." I said to myself, I was trying to absorb this information as best I could until Arius spoke up again.

"Funny enough, after everything was said and done, a lot of others were teleported to this place through no fault of their own. How? I'm not sure. You said you were temporarily misplaced, can I guess is you too were sent here?" he asked me which was a fair guess and a correct one.

"Yeah, pretty much. Wait, how do you know all of this?" I asked him which the computer chirped happily.

"I told you, I'm an all purpose tool. One of my many functions is information gathering! Every piece of information I could get my hands on on this landmass I have added to my memory banks. That includes monster logs as well both benign and malevolent. Some are very, very dangerous either way good or evil. I more or less have logs on every sort of adventurer that has not tried to leave this landmass yet too. I don't have a great deal on them however, I can tell you everything I have on them should you need to know!" he said to me.

This was a lot to take in, I'd have to ask him to read it all back to me later but I knew we were getting sidetracked. "You mentioned the starship you belong to. Where is it exactly?" I asked him which he brought up another screen right beside the other.

"Here it is, Master Saren. In a place in the north of the world called Starborn Valley, it sits upon a high mountain even though the ship is easily large enough to eclipse it and the village of where it sits on. However, the weight of the ship surprisingly has no outer bearings to the mountain and is holding it easily. It's rather...unusual." he said in a quizzical tone.

"How so?" I asked.

"Well, Nexus easily weighs more than the mountain itself, not to mention Nimbasa Drive inside the ship that powers the whole ship is offline due to a energy contamination within the core itself. Coming from the valley that it's currently resting at. So it can't engage with none of its many functions nor can I signal it to turn on until the contamination has been dealt with. It, being a starship, weighs a lot heavier due to the metals used to make it none of which can be found on this world eventually I fear the mountain will give way and crush that poor village." he said in a hushed, worried tone.

"Hmm...I guess our end goal should be to reach that ship. But with the Channel is frozen like it is...we're going to need to think of something. Alright, first things first. Let's reach the market. Seems there's a lot of adventuring type people down there. Maybe I could party up with them." I say to myself just as the screens turn off.

"Of course, it would be the first thing to do. Something to mention, these adventurers don't come from this world either. I don't know a lot about them but it seems they have real power in their own world they brought here, much like yourself which I'm keeping yours suppressed until you can control it via memory link but you're going to need something to fight with which I have a whole armament of weapons, armors, and other equipment for you to use provided you had training with these, if not, I have to train you to use them efficiently before I can clear you to use them." he said in a serious tone.

I nod. He was right, no sense in getting myself killed because I couldn't use anything it had. So on that note, I went ahead and set off down the dirt road and heading toward the market. If what he said was true, I'm in for a surprise when I meet who these adventurers might be. I have my suspicion as to who they are but I can't be certain. I just have to play it cool just in case I see anyone familiar and not try to act like a ravenous fanboy. Heh, easier said than done though.

Alright, with that out of the way. Next stop, the town's market. I don't have any money but I'm sure they have something like bounties I can clear for that. Seems the original inhabitants surely must need help. Funny thing is, if this world belongs to all those we've created...I can say for certain that everything must be connected somehow...not going to be good for some but very beneficial to others. Only time will tell on that note.